Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock The notorious drug trafficker Pablo Escobar brought four hippopotamuses to Colombia in the 1980s. They were ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pablo Escobar’s four escaped hippos have grown into a feral population of nearly 200 individuals in the Magdalena Basin of ...

Social media conversations about invasive species are driven more by charismatic animals, emotional appeal and celebrity influencers than ecological urgency, an international team of researchers has ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia will try to control its population of more than 100 hippopotamuses, descendants of animals illegally brought to the country by late drug kingpin Pablo Escobar in the 1980s, ...

Tucked between mountain ranges, the sprawling palace of Pablo Escobar was home to kangaroos, giraffes, elephants and other exotic animals — a private zoo of illegally imported animals that was the ...

As if real-life hippos weren’t far enough of a cry from their sweet cartoon counterparts — polar opposites from Madagascar’s Gloria or The Backyardigans’ Tasha — Discovery Channel’s brand new series ...

Four decades ago, Pablo Escobar brought to his Medellín hideaway four hippopotamuses, the centerpieces of a menagerie that included llamas, cheetahs, lions, tigers, ostriches and other exotic fauna.

No one casts a shadow over the history and legacy of Colombia quite like Pablo Escobar. Once the most powerful drug trafficker and kingpin on earth, Escobar made billions shipping cocaine to the ...